Vladimir Komoyedov

Vladimir Komoyedov was an admiral of the Russian Navy.

Biography
Vladimir Komoyedov was the chairman of the Russian Parliament's defense committee, and he was involved in planning Russia's intervention in the Syrian Civil War. Komoyedov was interviewed by 60 Minutes journalist Bill Whitaker on 10 January 2016 in a documentary about the Russian campaign in Syria, and he stated that he was not a fan of President Bashar al-Assad, insulting him in Russian and saying that people deciding their government through elections failed in Syria. He even went on to say that the Syrian Opposition had been formed in response to al-Assad's mistakes, and he said that al-Assad needed to work on his army and raise morale.